Sean Devlin

Sean Devlin was an Irish Grand Prix motor racing driver and French Resistance operative during World War II. Devlin was motivated to fight against the Nazi occupation of Paris following the Nazis' murder of his best friend, Jules Rousseau, in 1940, and he would help to sabotage the German forces in the city and build up the Resistance's strength in Paris.

Biography
Sean Devlin was born on a farm in Ireland, and he had a troubled childhood. Devlin, a violent child, made several enemies, and his father was killed in a deliberate house fire set by Sean's rivals. He worked as a racecar mechanic before becoming a racer himself. Devlin was known to be a hard drinker and womanizer, as well as a man who often made rash and impulsive decisions. Under the auspices of Italian business entrepreneur and mechanic Vittore Morini, and at the side of fellow mechanic Jules Rousseau, he became a regular among the racing groups of Paris, France, where he made a life for himself. He would start an on-again, off-again relationship with fellow racer Skylar St. Claire (whom he met in Monaco), while he also harbored feelings for Jules' sister, Veronique, who was hostile towards men due to her upbringing in a brothel.

1940 Saarbrucken Grand Prix
In May 1940, Devlin, Morini, and the Rousseau siblings drove from the Morini farm in Lorraine to the German border town of Saarbrucken to take part in the 1940 Saarbrucken Grand Prix. The night of their arrival in Saarbrucken, Devlin and Jules got into a bar fight with German racer Kurt Dierker and several other Team Doppelsieg racers after Dierker flirted with Veronique. The two of them were then able to escape with the help of St. Claire, with Devlin evading the Gestapo before driving back to the hotel. There, he made love with St. Claire, and he woke up the next morning alone.

During the Grand Prix, Devlin managed to make it to first place, but, halfway through the race, the humiliated Dierker shot out Devlin's tires with a Luger pistol, causing Devlin to be cheated out of winning. An infuriated Devlin conspired with Jules Rousseau to tail Dierker as he drove his prized car out of the racetrack, planning on destroying it. They infiltrated Doppelsieg Motor Works, and they drove the car off of a cliff. As they prepared to head back to France as happy men, they were accosted by the Gestapo and taken into the factory for interrogation. Dierker revealed himself to be an SS colonel, and he accused Devlin of being a British agent. When Devlin continued to deny this and insulted Dierker, Dierker shot Rousseau several times, killing him. Devlin broke Dierker's nose, but he was knocked out and sent to a cell. Later that night, he succeeded in killing his guard, retrieving some weapons, and single-handedly shooting his way out of the Doppelsieg factory. He then escaped in a German military vehicle, driving across the border and into France. However, he found that the Battle of France had started, and saw German forces set fire to French towns as they fought for control of them. He fled to Morini's farm, where he rescued Morini and Veronique from the Gestapo, and he informed the latter of her brother's death. The three of them, knowing that more Gestapo would arrive to search for Devlin, decided to go to Paris, and they hid at the La Belle du Nuit brothel in Montmartre. Just a month later, German forces occupied Paris.